Russia and Soviet Union

In this work, Trotsky, writing from the unique vantage point of a leading participant in both the 1905 and the October 1917 revolutions, explains the historical events, socio-economic processes, and political struggles that led to the creation of the world’s first workers’ state. Learn More

One of the most important works of political theory ever written. Opposing the Russian Economists, who were generally indifferent to questions of theory, Lenin argued that "only a party that is guided by the most advanced revolutionary theory" will be able to provide the working class with revolutionary leadership. Learn More

In November 1989 Workers League National Secretary David North traveled to the Soviet Union on behalf of the International Committee of the Fourth International. This pamphlet contains the text of a lecture presented at the Historical Archival Institute in Moscow as well as the text of discussions held with Soviet students and journalists. Learn More

In 1996, Russian Marxist historian Vadim Rogovin traveled to Australia to deliver these lectures. Rogovin's central thesis is that there was and remains a Marxist alternative to Stalinism. He demonstrates that Stalin's Great Terror was not the irrational response of a paranoid tyrant, but was precipitated by the need of the Stalinist bureaucracy to eradicate the growing socialist opposition to its rule, led by Trotsky and the Left Opposition.
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This pamphlet contains a speech given by David North in 1987 on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky. It reviews the history of Trotsky's struggle against the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union. Learn More

A devastating first-hand account of Stalin's labor camps. Maria Joffe, widow of leading Bolshevik Adolf Joffe and with him a prominent member of the Trotskyist opposition to Stalinism, survived 29 years in prison camps in the Soviet Union. (hardbound edition) Learn More

This speech by Trotsky on the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the May Day holiday elaborates the great principles on which this day of international working class solidarity is based. Learn More